I was out having a look round the garden in earnest this afternoon for the first time this year. It was pretty balmy for February (perhaps about 8 or 9C) and for the first time I had a sense that spring might be in the air. A few crocuses are tentatively coming in to flower, […]
While we were away I am afraid both R and I were unfaithful to Tora and Schrodi by petting another cat. This was ‘Paws’ who lives in Mossdale Post Office. He is a polydactyl cat – which means he lives up to his name as both his front paws have two extra toes, making his […]
We visited my parents this weekend. As I think I mentioned before they live near Loch Ken in Galloway which is another really beautiful part of the country. It was particularly lovely this weekend because the weather was superb the whole time: bitterly cold but clear and sunny. In fact they have had more snow […]
R and I went to Dumbarton today to get some shopping and pick up J who is looking after our cats for the weekend while we go to see my parents. It was a lovely sunny day and I don’t think I have ever seen ‘The Rest’ looking quite so spectacular. As ever I took […]
There is something about new freshly washed sheets that cats love. Yesterday I changed our bed – and they were both on it within ten minutes and made royal pains of themselves all night. Today I prepared a bed for J who is coming to look after them this weekend. I turned my back for […]
Beautiful sunset here tonight with a few clouds just catching the last rays of the sun.
Bitterly cold today, particularly down by the Loch with a biting wind from the north. There’s also plenty of snow still on the ground which is annoying the two sheep (which are still in our garden). But I noticed the first spring flowers today so I suppose it must be on its way eventually.
While we were out walking on Sunday we left our time lapse camera running. I wanted to do a full dawn to dusk originally, but the morning turned out to be a bit boring – mainly because the weather was too nice with no moving clouds to speak of. So I cut that bit out […]
There is a small ivy covered wall in the back garden here which is all that is left of the original lodge house which stood on this site and burned down in the 1970s. In the absence of being able to get at much grass through the snow, our resident escapees spent several hours eating […]
